Acadia ALERT - Campus Closed (Weather)

Today, Monday December 08, 2025, Acadia University will remain closed, with the exception of residences and Wheelock Dining Hall, due to the current weather, poor travel conditions and King's Transit cancelling service for the day. Wheelock Dining Hall may adjust their hours due to the weather and any change in hours will be communicated through Residence Life.

Employees and students are not expected to come to campus and only employees deemed essential are required to report to work. Non-essential employees are not expected to work during the closure. Any events scheduled for today will be postponed or cancelled. All exams scheduled for today will be rescheduled to a later date.

Updates will be posted on www.acadiau.ca and pre-recorded on Acadia’s Information Line: 902-585-4636 (585-INFO). If you need emergency-related information, please contact the Department of Safety and Security by dialing 88 on all 585-phone systems, or by calling 902-585-1103.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Acadia University

Department of Safety & Security

902-585-1103

security@acadiau.ca

(Monday December 8, 2025 @ 11:34 am)

Andrea Schwenke Wyile Presented

“Picturebook Poesis: The Ecology of Narrative Space in Poetry Picturebooks with a focus on Sheree Fitch’s Merry-Go-Day and Night Sky Wheel Ride”  presented at  the Visual/Verbal Texts Symposium, a three day invitational, international symposium hosted by the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures at the University of Winnipeg, June 25-27, 2013.

Panel Member of "Faces of Places: Moving  Beyond the Tourist Gaze in Atlantic Canadian Books for Children" (with Vivian Howard, Dal U, and Sue Fisher, UNBF) for "Atlantic Canada in a Shifting World," the Eighth Thomas H. Raddall Symposium at Acadia,from July 5-7, 2013. Paper: “Resistant Representations of  Place and Childhood in 1990s Atlantic Picturebooks.”

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